{"id":67286,"date":"2020-09-05T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2724311"},"modified":"2020-09-05T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T10:43:00","slug":"11-u-s-neighborhoods-emerge-as-best-candidates-for-opportunity-zone-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/09\/05\/11-u-s-neighborhoods-emerge-as-best-candidates-for-opportunity-zone-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"11 U.S. Neighborhoods Emerge As Best Candidates For Opportunity Zone Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database and first property data provider of Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), teamed up with CityBldr, a Seattle<\/span>-based proptech company that uses AI to determine the best use of land, to discover that a widespread group of mostly-impoverished, densely-packed urban neighborhoods ranging from Anacostia in southeast Washington, DC<\/span>, to the South Shore area of Chicago, IL<\/span>, to City Heights in central San Diego, CA<\/span>, offer some of the most attractive opportunities in the nation for housing developers to take advantage of federal reinvestment tax benefits.<\/p>\n

CityBldr data spotlights 11 neighborhoods in seven states and the District of Columbia<\/span> with some of the best potential for using Opportunity Zone tax benefits designed to spur revival in low-income communities across the United States<\/span>. The zones were established by Congress under the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act.<\/p>\n

Along with Anacostia, South Shore, and City Heights, other neighborhoods identified include Mid-City in central Los Angeles<\/span>; Parramore in west-central Orlando, FL<\/span>; Central District in eastern Seattle, WA<\/span>; West Colfax<\/span> in western Denver, CO<\/span>; Spartan Keyes in eastern San Jose, CA<\/span>; North End\/New Center in northern Detroit, MI<\/span>; Buckman\/Kerns in southeastern Portland, OR<\/span>; and Hilltop in central Tacoma, WA.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of those areas stand out as notably poorer and more densely populated than the U.S. as a whole, with lower income and educational levels and far higher percentages of renters than homeowners. However, contributing to their economic potential, a few have above-average educational levels, and most have home values that far exceed the national median home price. They also have seen a wide range of median home price increases and decreases over the past year, from nearly doubling in Chicago’s<\/span> South Shore neighborhood, to a drop of 12 percent in the Mid-City section of Los Angeles<\/span>, according to ATTOM.<\/p>\n

The areas were identified by CityBldr as among those where both communities and housing developers have the most to gain from Opportunity Zone tax benefits, based on machine learning technology from various data sources and a detailed understanding of the various markets.<\/p>\n

“This data tells us that housing developers should consider investing in these neighborhoods because they have an immense amount of potential, plus tax benefits aimed at realizing that potential,” said Bryan Copley<\/span>, co-founder and CEO of CityBldr. “What we’ve done with this study is create a standardized score to compare every opportunity zone in the U.S. to determine which areas would yield the highest average return on investment.”<\/p>\n

Todd Teta<\/span>, chief product officer with ATTOM Data Solutions, noted that ATTOM contributed another key element showing home price changes from the first half of 2019 to the first half of 2020 in those areas.<\/p>\n

“Factoring in home values and how they’ve done in the past year adds a critical piece of data to the picture,” said Teta. “Developers can get a demographic snapshot of what these areas look like, plus the hard numbers on how home prices are changing.”<\/p>\n

Key data points for areas spotlighted in the study:<\/strong><\/p>\n